El enfoque de género en la política editorial de las revistas científicas de Comunicación de mayor impacto del Journal Citation Reports

  1. Alejandra Hernández Ruiz
  2. Iolanda Tortajada
  3. Inmaculada J. Martínez
Journal:
Revista general de información y documentación

ISSN: 1132-1873,  1988-2858

Year of publication: 2023

Volume: 33

Issue: 1

Pages: 219-230

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/RGID.89227 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

Since 2012, equality between the sexes and the integration of the gender perspective in research have been one of the priorities of the European Commission for the creation of the European Research Area. In order to eradicate the gender gap in scientific research and publication, the Gender Policy Committee of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) promotes the SAGER (Sex and Gender Equity in Research) guidelines to incorporate systematic reporting by sex and gender in all phases of the research process. In our country, in the FECYT process of evaluating the editorial and scientific quality of the Spanish journals, in order to obtain the Mention of Good Editorial Practices in Gender Equality, there are also requirements related to the representation of women in editorial boards. The general objective of this research is to analyze the gender approach in the editorial policies of scientific Communication journals in the first quartile of the Journal Citation Reports in its latest edition. Specifically, the composition of the editorial board and the instructions to the authors are analyzed based on the information available on the web pages. Despite the fact that more than half of the analyzed journals include the SAGER guidelines in their instructions for submitting manuscripts, their low visibility, as well as the nature of recommendation or orientation with which they are presented in scientific publications, could limit their effective implementation.

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